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Water in the Green Economy in Practice: Towards Rio+20 This document has been prepared by Caridad Canales and Andrei Jouravlev, Economic Affairs Officers of the Natural Resources and Energy Unit, Division of Natural Resources and Infrastructure, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and by the UN-Water Decade Programme on Advocacy and Communication (UNW-DPAC). The authors would like to thank for their contributions and cooperation Adrian Cashman, CERMES - University of the West Indies; Elisa Colom de Morán, Specific Water Cabinet of the Presidency of the Republic of Guatemala; Thomas Chiramba, Silas Mogoi and Isabel Martinez, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); Tim Jones, DJ Environmental; Carlos Lloret, Fund for the Protection of Water (FONAG), and Ruben Avendaño, Empresas Públicas de Medellin. The views expressed in this document, which has been reproduced without formal editing, are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Organization. United Nations Publication © United Nations, June 2012. All rights reserved Member States and their governmental institutions may reproduce this work without prior authorization, but are requested to mention the source and inform the United Nations of such reproduction. WaterandaGreenEconomy 1
Water and a Green Economy in LAC WaterandaGreenEconomy Content 2 Abstract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Foreword. Water and the Green Economy: expectations for Rio+20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 I. Mainstreaming water into a green economy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 A. Agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 B. Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 C. Cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 D. Watersheds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 II. Water and a green economy in Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 A. Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 B. Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 C. Lessons learnt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 III. Case studies from the region Specific Water Cabinet of the Presidency of the Republic of Guatemala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Pro-poor financing and tariffs in Medellin, Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 The Fund for the Protection of Water (FONAG), Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Water’s potential role in supporting a green economy in Barbados . . 40 IV. The expert’s perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Annexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Annex 1: Tools for change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Annex 2: Issues presented for discussion at the Zaragoza Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
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